B Sitting here wasted and wounded F This old piano B Trying hard to capture the moment F This morning I don't know Am B 'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head F And some blond gave me nightmares B Think she's still in my bed B C F As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead B With an ironclad fist F I wake up, and French kiss the morning B While some marching band keepsits own beat F In my head while we're talking Am B About all of the things, that I long to believe F About love, the truth, what you mean to me B And the truth is B C F C Baby, you're all that I need Ref. Dm Dm I wanna lay C B F You down in a bed of roses Dm Dm For tonite C B F I sleep on a bed of nails B Oh, I want to be F Just as close as B F The Holy Ghost is Dm C B And lay you down B B F On a bed of roses B Well I'm so far away F Step that I take is on my way home B King's ransom in dimes F Given each night to see through this payphone Am Still I run out of time B Or it's hard to get through F Till the bird on the wire Flies me back to you B I'll just close my eyes, whisper B C F C Baby, blind love is true Dm Dm I wanna lay C B F You down in a bed of roses Dm Dm For tonite C B F I sleep on a bed of nails B Oh, I want to be F Just as close as B F The Holy Ghost is Dm C B And lay you down B F C On a bed of roses B Well this hotel bar hangover C F Whiskey's gone dry the barkeeper's wig's crooked And she's giving me the eye B I might have said yeah B C F F C C But I laughed so hard I think I died, uh yeah!... [Solo] Dm C B F (3x) Dm C B B F B Now as you close your eyes F Know I'll be thinking about you B While my mistress she calls me F To stand in her spotlight again B Tonite, I won't be alone F But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely Dm C B I've got nothing to prove for it's you B F C That I'd die to defend Dm Dm I wanna lay C B F You down in a bed of roses Dm Dm For tonite C B F I sleep on a bed of nails B Oh, I want to be F Just as close as B F The Holy Ghost is Dm C B And lay you down Dm Dm I wanna lay C B F You down in a bed of roses Dm Dm For tonite C B F I sleep on a be...ed of nails! B I want to be F Just as close as B F The Holy Ghost is! Dm C B Lay you down B B F The bed of roses